Implicit Bias Part 2

California Assembly Bill AB 241, effective January 1, 2022 requires all continuing education courses for it's licensees to contain curriculum that include specified instruction in the understanding of implicit bias in treatment. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill id=201920200AB241

Using a combination of research, storytelling, and engaging activities the speakers aim to motivate individuals to create a more inclusive and equitable environment in their institutions. Knowing that shame and blame demotivates participants, instead the speakers will rely on research of how bias leads to distinctive disparities in various sectors, review how the brain gravitates toward biases in the first place, give participants an opportunity to reflect on bias in thier own lives, and then empower them with evidence-based strategies shown to be effective in disrupting the effects of bias on behavior.

Part 1 Objectives:

• Apply evidence-based strategies for addressing implicit bias at the individual and personal levels.
• Apply evidence-based strategies for addressing implicit bias at the institutional level.
• Identify next steps for implementing strategies for mitigating the impacts of implicit bias in your practice.

Jarrod Schwartz is the Founder & Principal of Equity Praxis Group, a mission-driven consulting practice  fostering diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEU).  Jarrod has over 20 years of experience designing and facilitating DEU training to public and nonprofit healthcare providers and agencies, including physicians, physician assistants, administrators, mental health providers, medical students and support personnel. Trainings have focused on issues of cultural proficiency in healthcare, racial equity in healthcare, implicit bias, language justice and access, improving services to LGBTQ+ patients, effective communication during patient intake and more.  Jarrod holds a Master's degree in Organizational Development from American University and the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science. He is an Associate of the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, and an Adjunct Faculty member for Antioch University's Masters of Arts in Education program.

Dr. Carmel Saad, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychology  at Westmont College in Santa Barbara.  She earned her PhD in social and personality psychology at U.C. Davis.  Her work focuses on cultural competence, diversity, multicultural awareness and bias.  Carmel aims to understand how to disrupt the impact of bias on behavior toward others to reduce disparities in real-world outcomes.  She has adopted an evidence-based framework to help those in academic, law enforcement, healthcare, for-profit and nonprofit organizational contexts combat the effects of prejudice in their work.